Dalí Clocks: Time Dimensions of HypermediaStephanie Strickland investigates an epistemological shift in
web-specific art and literature, from an understanding that is less about
structure and more about resonance.

Cybertext Killed the
Hypertext StarNick Montfort reviews Espen J. Aarseth's Cybertext, which stakes out a post-hypertextual terrain for literary criticism
and practice. Interactive excerpts from some of the cybertexts
that Aarseth discusses are included.

Lexia to Perplexia:hypertext? cybertext? hypermedia? webart? while
new media critics debate the terms, Talan Memmott has produced the thing
itself, a creative use of applied technology.

Unfolding
LaraméeAllison Hunter shows how an artist can be fully contemporary without digitizing,
streaming, or projecting imagery. Presenting jacquard looms and
punch card technologies from the 1950s, difference engines and
magnetic core memory stacks, silicon chips in wood housing and
digital code on 18th-century woven fabric, Laramee manipulates
history like a medium.

Signmakers 1999Cary Wolfereviews Allison Hunter's installation at Europas Parkas in Lithuania.
In her work, interspersed as it is among that of other artists,
Hunter focuses our attention on signification in the crevices
of the so-called public sphere.

New = Old,
Old = New:Jan Baetansargues that Chris Ware's print-based comic book, Jimmy Corrigan, has already produced the revolution longed for by Scott McCloud - a revolution, however, that will not be digitized.

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Feeding the Global SpiderLinda Brighamsees Zygmunt Bauman's Globalization: The Human
Consequences as a provocative
introduction to our current environmental and economic predicament.

German TV TroublesGeoffrey
Winthrop-Young takes the outside perspective on German media studies.

After the Postand The Postal System and the Making of German Literary CultureA historian and a literary critic review Bernard
Siegert's Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System.Richard John considers Siegert as a media theorist in the line of Walter Ong, Elizabeth Eisenstein, and Harold Innis. For
Daniel Punday,
Siegert's historical materialism - a difficult synthesis of historical, literary, and institutional analysis - falls
somewhere between Derrida and Foucault.

Poetry After the Great DivideJan Baetens finds that Carrie Noland's
Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology
provides a way out of the sterile opposition between literary and cultural
studies.

Is Charles Bernstein a Political Poet?William Gillespiereads the poet's
two anthologies, My Way and Republics of Reality, and makes forays into POETICS and
the (mean)ing of poets and poetry.